What I Am Doing, No. 7 (The Shape of Paper)

1980, printed 1987

Eiko Yamazawa

Associated Names
Eiko Yamazawa

Artist, Japanese, 1899 - 1995

The image shows crumpled paper and sharp lines forming an abstract composition of overlapping shapes and jagged edges. The arrangement resembles a distorted pile of colored shards or fragments in blue, black, brown, and white. The mix of colors and textures creates shadows and highlights across the scene.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chromogenic print

  • Credit Line

    R. K. Mellon Family Foundation

  • Dimensions

    image: 26.5 × 26 cm (10 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 34.93 × 27 cm (13 3/4 × 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.156.1

  • Series Title

    What I Am Doing

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan); NGA purchase, 2022.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on white paper taped to bottom center of print verso, typed in black ink: No. 4 "THE SHAPES OF PAPER" 1980 / © eiko YAMAZAWA 264X261 / Return by air mail to Mr. Tatsuo Fukushima: 4-18-7 Miyamae Suginami-ku Tokyo 168 Japan / Tel: (03) 334-1052

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